Emmerdale: New producer promises 'thriller-style' week of episodes this autumn: 'It will be spectacular'

Iain MacLeod teases a special week of episodes that will be like nothing seen in a British soap before

EMMERDALE will feature a "thriller-style" week of episodes later this year.

The soap, which will have to go all out to top last year's helicopter crash, and it looks set to be "something different" than viewers are used to.

Emmerdale will have a 'spectacular' autumn with a 'thriller-style' week of episodes[ITV]

According to STV, Emmerdale's new producer Iain MacLeod revealed "exciting" plans for a "thriller" or "action movie" style set of episodes.

He revealed: "We’ve got some quite exciting plans for the autumn in terms of doing something a little bit different, a special week of episodes that will be kind of spectacular, but in a way I don’t think we’ve seen in a soap before. I can’t say much more than that.

The producer, not wanting to give too much away, continued that soaps tend to feature disaster-style plots, but this would be different.

He explained: "We’ve seen a lot of disaster movies; what I’ve got in mind is more akin to a thriller or an action movie."